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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

"I'm a brain scientist and I let my son play football" -- Peter Cummings, MD

Peter Cummings, MD with his son

Dr. Peter Cummings, an accomplished forensic neuropathologist, just posted an article on Yahoo Sports giving his perspective on the controversial question of whether we should let our children play football given the risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Here is the link. Thanks to Dr. John Donahue of Brown University for alerting me to this article.